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The Time Inc. magazines Time and Life maintained a very pro-war editorial stance until October 1967, when the editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan came out against the war. [10] Donovan wrote in an editorial in Life that the United States had gone into Vietnam for "honorable and sensible purposes", but the war had turned out to be "harder, longer ...
In political communication, the phrase "you are either with us, or against us" and similar variations are used to generate polarisation and reject non-partisanship. [ citation needed ] The implied consequence of not joining the partisan effort of the speaker is to be deemed an enemy.
Rhetorical stance is the position or perspective that a writer or speaker adopts to convey a message to an audience. [ 1 ] It involves choices in tone, style, and language to persuade, inform, entertain, or engage the audience.
They shall not pass – slogan used to express a determination to defend a position against an enemy; most notably used by France in World War I; also used during the Spanish Civil War by the Republican faction; Think globally, act locally – phrase used in various contexts, including urban planning
Three types of stance are often distinguished: Epistemic stance is the expression (through verbal or other means) of a relative difference between interactants' relation to some knowledge (i.e. a doctor has the epistemic authority to answer medical questions), [5] while deontic stance is the expression of relative strength compared to another ...
Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive to defend a right point of view or a relevant statement. In the field of psychology and psychotherapy, it is a skill that can be learned and a mode of communication.
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. [1] The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century. [2]
Based on John Milton's arguments, freedom of speech is understood as a multi-faceted right that includes not only the right to express, or disseminate, information and ideas but three further distinct aspects: the right to seek information and ideas; the right to receive information and ideas; the right to impart information and ideas